Example sentences of "it [prep] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woosnam himself , angry at the time of the incident at the 13th , said this week that ‘ only a few people spoilt it for a lot ’ . |
| 2 | McGrath said : ‘ If I had a New Year 's wish , it would be for us and Manchester United to battle it out in a two-horse race for the Championship — and for us to win it for a lot of reasons . ’ |
| 3 | You can use it for a lot of things , but when you get down to analyse it , I think it may be the law of the jungle where the strongest survive ; and I do n't know necessarily whether that 's a bad thing . |
| 4 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 5 | so you 're made to feel the most special person on the earth and I think that makes it worth it for a lot of them . |
| 6 | And that 's what we got imminence for — but you can use it for a lot more than that . |
| 7 | So Shel can sell it for a lot more than that . |
| 8 | He 'd used it about a lot of his friends behind their backs , particularly if they were homosexuals or had other sexual tastes he considered unusual . |
| 9 | I liked writing but was very insecure about it as a lot of people ( NME , THE FACE etc ) took the piss out of it . |
| 10 | The England captain said : ‘ We 've done it despite a lot of injuries and we 've been without Mark Waugh for the last six matches because he 's with the Australian team in Sri Lanka . |
| 11 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 12 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 13 | ‘ But I like to think that if I did n't do it , someone else would have done it with a lot less taste and love for the countryside . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , yes she wore it with a lot of you know trousers and skirts and The big thing at the moment is a new polo neck that we got from . |
| 15 | And they try and do it with a lot of gimmickry and |
| 16 | I 've noticed it in a lot of my friends . |
| 17 | A second function which I do n't want to dwell on now because I 'm gon na deal with it in a lot more detail next week , is o o this is a second function of calcium activated K channels , is to release potassium from epith epithelial cells during fluid and electrolyte secretion . |
| 18 | I 'm going to ver the well the information I impart now is in brief Richard because they will certainly cover it in a lot more detail when you get to the er training . |
| 19 | I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail |
| 20 | And I 've seen you do it in a lot of them . |
| 21 | No he says I could do it in a lot less time than that , he said and a lot neater , I said , you saying I 'm a scruffy writer ? |
| 22 | We 're , we 're sort of just about , you know there 's the last minute things to put in , but , barring that , what we 've done is to put it in a lot of small bags rather than big cases |
| 23 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 24 | In an economic upturn that may change , of course , but I think they all get jobs of some sort , and I would have hoped that a chemistry degree , a good training in chemistry , would in fact also train people to think in such a way that they could apply it to a lot of other areas . |
| 25 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 26 | Of course , Mr Nakamura could not have done it without a lot of help from his staff : two of them resigned with him and all other executives are taking a six month pay cut of between 20 per cent and 50 per cent . |
| 27 | He was very very tolerant with me and he brought me back into it without a lot of undue pressure and erm because transport was n't my life but I 'd sort of dedicated myself to it . |
| 28 | Obviously he put it across a lot better than what I did but the actual message of getting that across |
| 29 | it save a lot of money er all these pensioners get 'em all shot off |